Here is a retro video of Tiger Woods appearing on The Mike Douglas Show over 30 years ago. A much simpler, less cheaty, car crashy, and tabloid conjecturey time for Tiger.

Health insurance industry trade groups opposed to President Obama's health care reform bill are paying Facebook users fake money — called "virtual currency" — to send letters to Congress protesting the bill.

Before the days of SexyBack, Lance Bass coming out, and Joey Fatone flooding airwaves hosting awful gameshows, there was a time when Boy Bands reigned supreme. Each had a christmas single — but not all of them co-starred Gary Coleman!

Here's an animated she-panther whipping a man in underwear into submission in an Orangina ad. It would be great to be a fly on the wall with the creative team when they came up with this. (NSFWish—manbutt)

[Cate Blanchett dashes by a taxi while running to meet a friend at a NoHo restaurant in Manhattan yesterday. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Objectively speaking, some 24 year-olds repainting bike lanes on the street ranks in the bottom 10% of New York crime stories on any given day. But since they are HIPSTERS who love to ride bikes battling THE JEWS who hate hipsters and their immodest bike-riding attire, there in Williamsburg, in a sexxxy culture clash, well then. Two bike lane repainters got arrested and now the cultural martyrdom grows deeper:

Harry Reid won a compromise between Senate Centrists and Senate Liberals: centrists killed the public option and liberals get the privilege of voting for something that they could argue resembles a public option, sort of.

This dog is very threatened by his mirror image, yet keeps coming back for more.

Incredible spiral blue alien UFO laser beam explosion photographed over Norway. SERIOUSLY. [Daily Mail, Gizmodo has a full gallery of photos, and there's a video after the jump.]

Lady Gaga leaving Nobu last night after having dinner ... Cate Blanchett crossing the street in NoHo ... Sienna Miller leaving Jude Law's apartment with Jonny Lee Miller ... Kim Kardashian arriving at JFK, and later leaving the Wendy Williams Show ... Jason Bateman and Beth Ditto arriving at MTV in Times Square ... Taylor Lautner getting off a flight at JFK ... Taylor Swift walking in Midtown with a couple of bodyguards ... Rihanna arriving at JFK to catch a flight ... Taylor Momsen walking to the set of Gossip Girl ... and Rachel Uchitel going into an Equinox gym and later walking downtown with a friend.

There's adorable, and there's talented. Then there's the adorably talented. Only a handful of children in the world can be crowned with the title of "Adorablented." This kid is one of the few.

the former columnist for the New York Daily News and Newsday giving his remarks after a gushing tribute last night at New York University's Ireland House, according to the New York Times.

What starts as a cute, stuffed animal web show ends in internet infamy.

Good news, near-suicidal media executives: Expert forecasters say ad spending will rise next year! Two caveats: Print media will still plummet. And, the expert forecasters barely have any idea what they're doing.

Yes, she is apparently also into ladies that look like the day crew at Scores. An A-list star is looking to hire a famous girlfriend and this movie duo can't get along. Who is it? Cat got your tongue?

The Maison Hermès window display in Japan by Tokujin Yoshioka, and The Digital Dandelion exhibition at the V&A in London by Sennep and Yoke both take digital imagery and have it interact organically (and beautifully) with the real world.

Do you regularly walk around town and bemoan the fact that so many people are overweight? Now you can do something about it: The city is looking for 100 volunteers to teach yoga, Pilates, and aerobics to obese New Yorkers who can't afford to join a gym. [NYDN]

Funny little thing that Tiger Woods would probably get a chuckle out of, if he wasn't in such a bad mood these days: The more we see Tiger's face on TV, the less we see him in TV commercials. Relief!

On December 9th 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped in Vegas. Swinging vintage newsreel after the jump!

• Gisele Bundchen has two reasons to be happy today. Not only did she just have a baby, but less than a month after she closed on the sale of her West 11th Street penthouse, she's managed to find a buyer for her townhouse at 42 Barrow Street, too. The 5,000-square-foot home, which Bundchen bought for $5.8 million in 2005, had been listed for $13.95 million since September. [Cityfile, PDE]
• Entrepreneur David Smilow has found a buyer for his duplex penthouse at 140 Perry Street. The massive 8,100-square-foot spread, which Smilow listed for $19.5 million and took off the market in April, went into contract to sell earlier this week. [Cityfile, PDE]
• Dr. Arthur Agatston, the cardiologist best known for having created the South Beach Diet, and his wife Sari Agatston, have paid $7 million for a 6,400-square-foot mansion in East Hampton. [Newsday]